What excites me and the kind of people I want to work with

What excites me in this course is the unpredictable outcome of the final product that I and our team (once it is formed) will have at the end of the semester. I look forward to working as a team and develop something creative that I hope I will enjoy not only the outcome but also the process in creating it. As for what excites me in a more general matter, I am interested in working with (information) technology where we could either improve a particular system or produce something useful that can make our lives much comfortable. 

In terms of the type of people that I want to work with, I don't have any strong preferences in particular. However, as the minimum requirement for a team requires to have at least one engineer and a business major, I would like to have as much diversity in the group as possible. For instance, if we were to create a team of 5 people, an ideal set of team members that I would imagine would consist of an engineer (apart from myself), a business major, a computer science major, and a humanities major. This will allow us to tackle upcoming issues from a diverse perspective and overcome difficulties in a creative manner. It would also be really helpful if everyone is cooperative and respects one another, thus creating great teamwork.

About myself and area of interest

Hello everyone my name is Hyun-Ho Jung (and I also go by the name Hayden as people often find it difficult to pronounce my Korean name) and I am a 4th year Industrial Engineering and Operations Research major. I am from South Korea and one thing special about me would be that I have lived in many different countries that include Ukraine, Russia, South Korea, France, Kenya, and the US. I also enjoy playing various sports such as tennis and soccer.

In terms of what I want to do as a class project for IEOR 185 Challenge Lab, I would preferably work on something that is related to information technology (IT), which is my area of interest. As my major is mostly concerned with increasing efficiency of a certain process and global optimization, improving upon a certain procedure or a product seems to be the most adequate choice. For instance, in the Berkeley Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA) website, there are all sorts of patents related to improving traffic monitoring system, improving survey execution system, and so on that is related to managing a great scale of data. These seems to fit well with my interest in IT. Moreover, it would be even better if the product can be applied in our daily lives as it always provides me an incentive to work harder when the product is easily approachable and able to receive frequent feedbacks.

However, I am open to any other ideas even if it is not related to information technology. In fact, I believe the decision for the class project should be determined once the members of the team are set as it is crucial to utilize each member's specialty.